PDF files in google

Pain

[xcandyman]

Hi

I may be the only one but I wish google specified MORE when a SERP is a pdf file. My browser (Firebird) hates .pdf files and sometimes crashes. Even on IE browsing slows down. Maybe a colourful PDF logo at the side of the result will help.

I've been asking around some IT people I know and they feel the same way.

What does everyone else think?

Steve

[futureX]

I never notice that its a pdf flie when I click, but then I all of a sudden become ware of them :/

[sem4u]

You should be able to see Google's version of PDFs as HTML via a link.

[xcandyman]

A lot of users don't notice the "File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat", I think because it just seems to merge in with the description. If there was a PDF logo say next to the page title it would help a lot of users out. I accidently click on one of these things way too often.

Steve

[xcandyman]

You should be able to see Google's version of PDFs as HTML via a link.

I noticed including myself many users just have a quick glance at the page title and if that sounds relevant I click. Never seeing the "PDFs as HTML via a link."

Steve

[kevinpate]

I'm confused on why pdf's are hard to spot. I find more and more pdf's from our site appearing in serp's. Those which show up all have the same listing format:

[PDF] Page Title Here
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
(snippet of text from the file)
htt*:***domainname/folder/filename.pdf Similar Pages

<edited by moi to break the fake link>

[takagi]

Why don't you just exclude the PDFs from the SERP? So if you now look for

keyword1 keyword2

change the search string into

keyword1 keyword2 -filetype:pdf

and you won't accidentally open a PDF.

[xcandyman]

keyword1 keyword2 -filetype:pdf

I would but doing that everytime is very tedious :(

I sould look b4 I click I know, but i'm always in a rush to find my info.

Steve